Day laborer badly hurt in industrial accident

A day laborer from Tinton Falls was in critical condition today after the piece of heavy equipment he was operating in Monmouth County tipped and ran over him, police said.

The victim was seated atop a Bobcat on a steep incline when the machine overturned on Allaire Road in Middletown, township police Lt. Cortlandt Best said. He was not pinned.

The accident occurred shortly before 4:30 p.m. while the laborer was working on renovations to a house in the Brasch Farm development, Best said. The victim, who sustained head and chest injuries, was airlifted by helicopter to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune.

His name was not immediately available because he and his co-workers, who spoke Spanish, were not able to communicate in English, Best said.